$325 million
There is yet another potential lottery jackpot available tonight. One of those "balls" lotteries is set to go off. Powerball, Lottoball ... something like that. I don't play enough to truly understand the thing. When the jackpot gets over $200 million, a bunch of us at work put-in two dollars each and buy a bunch of tickets. As you can no doubt tell, we have never won. Otherwise, I'd be writing this from Sedona, Arizona shitfaced on Mai Tai's and ordering prostitutes on the Craigslist. For some reason, the work group only collects when the jackpot gets to a certain level - as though winning $50 million isn't as big a deal as winning $200 million. It's not the 50 or 200 as much as it is the "million" part that appeals to me. I'm not a greedy person. I could do very well with $20,000 and say "thank you." After all, $200 million is a controversial amount of money. When the Phillies paid Ryan Howard $200 million,...